Lab · Spoken English: Zero to Fluent

Lab: numbers at the courier office, clinic and medical store

Labbeginner· about 1.5 hours· 4 steps

The brief

You give your phone number and PIN code at a courier office, say numbers that people often mix up, describe your day in clock times, book a clinic appointment for a date, and pay at a medical store. You write each script, say it aloud and record it.

Why it matters

Wrong numbers cost money and time: a parcel goes to the wrong PIN code, a delivery person calls the wrong phone, or you reach the clinic on the wrong day. Couriers, banks, call centres, shops and offices across India take numbers, times and prices on the phone every day, and they need them clear the first time.

Skills you practise

phone numbers in groups
stress in thirteen and thirty
telling the time
saying dates
prices in rupees and paying

You need

A phone with a voice recorder app
A clock or your phone clock

What you will have at the end

Your numbers.txt script and four voice recordings: phone number and PIN code, -teen and -ty numbers, your day in times, and the clinic and medical store dialogues.

How it is marked (rubric, 100 points)

Clear numbersA listener can write every number, time and date correctly from your recordings.	35
Correct formsOrdinals for dates, "at" before times, "rupees" after the number, and the right stress in -teen and -ty.	30
Complete scriptsEvery part of numbers.txt is filled in with your own details.	20
Self-reviewYou wrote down each number from your recording and re-recorded any part that was unclear.	15

0/4 steps done

Step 1 of 4

Give your phone number and PIN code

You have recorded your phone number in three groups and your PIN code digit by digit.

Fill in part 1. Say a 10-digit mobile number in three groups (3, 3 and 4 digits) with a short pause after each group, like the module: "nine eight seven, six five four, three two one zero". Say 0 as "zero" and two same digits together as "double five". A PIN code has six digits; say them one by one. If you will share this recording with anyone, use a made-up number instead of your real one.

Clerk: What's your phone number?
Me: My number is nine eight one, double two four, five zero six seven.
Clerk: Nine eight one, double two four, five zero six seven?
Me: Yes, that's right.
Clerk: And the PIN code?
Me: It's four one one, zero one four.

The clerk repeats the number to check it. You can ask for that too: "Could you repeat the number, please?"

I said the phone number in three groups, with a pause after each group
I said "double" for two same digits together (or there were none in my number)
I said 0 as "zero" every time
I said the six PIN code digits one by one
When I listen back, I can write the number down correctly without looking at my script

Your notes: numbers.txt

Write down each command you ran. It goes into your project summary.